I wasn't going to bring that up in this thread but since we went that direction... I was actually planning my cabinet to have player one as one set of joystick/buttons off of Pi USB 1, player two as the second set off Pi USB 2, the dedicated buttons on the third controller on Pi USB 3, and then a hub stuck into Pi USB 4 which would tie (via extension cables) to two external USB ports on the cabinet, to which I could plug in a keyboard, or two SNES joypads or other types of joypads or joysticks. I was going to cross that "hot swappable/which is active/how do I program that" bridge when I came to it. It sounds like, from above, it actually matters which of the 4 USB ports on the Pi I plug into? I figured they were all just addressed the same. Is that true? If so, I assume I plug a hub into USB 4 and those become 4, 5, 6, 7...? To clarify what I'm actually doing... I'm making a portable console like those ones you can buy online, which simply has a power cord and an HDMI cable and can be plugged into a TV anywhere. But my intent is to have the central portion of the panel have all the "hotkey default" dedicated buttons - save, load, exit, reset, etc. - and then have each of the two joy/button controller areas be small pull-out boxes with long cords, so the "base" can sit on the coffee table while the two controllers get passed between the kids sitting on the sectional sofa. I have plans in my head, and I'm using USB extension cables as the "pull out" cables (connecting the zero-delay boards to the Pi in the base). But what this means is that I can't (at least easily) use the pin plugs on the zero-delay boards in each "remote controller" for the buttons which I want on the base. Each zero-delay board will be in the pull-out box, and the "hotkey" dedicated buttons will be several feet away in the base on the coffee table. The only way to have those "hotkey" buttons plugged into the boards which operate the joysticks and action buttons would be to do some wire dissecting and soldering, and I don't want to bother with that. So my original question above was, can I use a third zero-delay board in the "base" which would only have those load-save-exit-reset-RGUI dedicated buttons, but NO actual controls tied to it? I suppose another way of looking at it is, can you "null" out all the hotkeys on player one and player two, and then null out all the directional/joystick/X/Y/A/B stuff on player 3 and still assign the hotkey commands? I'm working up a sketch of what I'm imagining for more clarity and will post when done, if this isn't clear... or too long that you didn't read it... :)

@mitu said in Noob questions about multiple controllers and USB boards: It's in the get started section - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Controller-Configuration/. ES tries to cover for all possible buttons and joysticks present on a PS or Xbox controller. There's also a video linked which shows this process. I've seen that, and I guess I'm not fully grasping how it's going to behave because that only shows "one controller detected". I assume that "one detected" is because one USB is device is plugged in in that example, and it's offering the options which go with that controller (SNES, Xbox 360, PS3, etc.) being plugged in. It doesn't explain how the menu will look when I have two separate USB boards and possibly a third (i-pac2 with ball and spinner), and what will be presented as options for each. I assume with my custom-built cabinet, I will get some sort of "generic controller" detected, so I am wondering what options it will give me. It also isn't clear where/when/if the hotkey action options appear - it lists the defaults at the bottom but not in the format of the stuff above. Are the hotkey action items listed in order to be assigned, or do they default as indicated and you can only change them by going into the config menu? Also, one post I saw seemed to indicate that if you reassign a hotkey action to a single button on your cabinet (rather than leaving it as "hotkey + (button or joystick direction)", then all the other hotkey actions must be assigned a single button and can't remain as a two-press action. Is that correct? Each console has its own gamepad - see this page for a detailed overview. The main variation is within the Arcade games, where it really depends on the game - but that's not really my area of expertise. You can look up various builds posted on the forum for real cabinets and their setup and others might chime in and give you advice. Yeah, I've read various threads opining on button arrangement, but my question is really a derivative of the above questions; I'm less worried about arranging the buttons for my gameplay and more concerned about what other buttons I should have on my cabinet in order to make it easy for my little kids and for visitors to play.

Hello and thanks for the answer again. Every emulator, even if I enter Retroarch to move between commands I have to use the controller 2 instead of 1. Image the last one, 4.4 and about the retropie version don't know what you mean, I have updated the script but don't know about the version, how do I see it? Sorry and thanks again.

Sorry for the delay in replying to this. Just wanted to update this post. Ok so it looks like the joystick inputs, Start, Select and Buttons A and B cannot be skipped but once I get past those inputs I can skip away and save the config (by getting to the end). So I just took some spare buttons I have and plugged them into the encoder and then once they were mapped I removed the psychical buttons I don't want leaving only one in my case. Thanks to Mitu for the help

I think i found it , i didn't connect the buttons at the same place on each PCB !

@Myrmior said in Asterisk on USB copied files: When offloaded onto the SD card from the USB stick, the roms show up as a teal color in file manager and have an asterisk next to them. That just means the files have the executable bit set, which is not a big deal and shouldn't have an effect on the game/rom being played. The problem is somewhere else.

@Clyde yes, i purcheased on ebay ;-)

@dankcushions Here's my pastebin: https://pastebin.com/NR8ixXeM If anybody sees anything interesting in there please let me know. I can't figure anything out in this file sadly. I don't know if it's of any interest but I plugged in my USB pendrive, ran RetroPie, hit F4 to exit EmuStation, ran the command dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt, ran emulationstation, played a PSX game which froze pretty much instantly, exited the game, took the file via WinSCP and there it is.

So I recorded the event stream from the U-HID using evemu and compared it to the event stream from a working Logitech mouse...the two report a different event. The Logitech reports EV_REL / REL_X (relative motion on X) whereas the U-HID reports EV_REL / REL_RX (relative motion on rotational X axis). When I edit the REL_RX to REL_X and replay the stream it works... I've emailed U-HID on the matter and will see what they say. If anybody has any idea if there is a way to get Linux to pickup the RX axis, please let me know... evemu exerpt: Working Logitech E: 0.000001 0002 0000 0010 # EV_REL / REL_X 10 E: 0.000001 0002 0001 0004 # EV_REL / REL_Y 4 E: 0.000001 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +0ms E: 0.016037 0002 0000 0023 # EV_REL / REL_X 23 E: 0.016037 0002 0001 0003 # EV_REL / REL_Y 3 E: 0.016037 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +16ms E: 0.032008 0002 0000 0012 # EV_REL / REL_X 12 E: 0.032008 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +16ms E: 0.047952 0002 0000 0022 # EV_REL / REL_X 22 E: 0.047952 0002 0001 -002 # EV_REL / REL_Y -2 evemu exerpt: Not-Working U-HID E: 0.000001 0002 0003 0001 # EV_REL / REL_RX 1 E: 0.000001 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +0ms E: 0.015999 0002 0003 0001 # EV_REL / REL_RX 1 E: 0.015999 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +15ms E: 0.031984 0002 0003 0003 # EV_REL / REL_RX 3 E: 0.031984 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +16ms E: 0.047986 0002 0003 0010 # EV_REL / REL_RX 10 E: 0.047986 0000 0000 0000 # ------------ SYN_REPORT (0) ---------- +16ms

@niculinux That's for transferring ROMs from the USB to the SDcard, not for backup.

@victimrlsh said in What controller do you use in Retropie?: @niculinux Does your EasyMSX mysteriously register presses of the Y button at the most inopportune times? Mine had that issue for a while, but went away as mysteriously as it started. No, i sat it up varous times in emulationstation but nothing, but i already gave it away so it doesn't matter. As for the thing, also with the xtreme gamepad it' a kernel issue i think, because retropie it's raspian based so it does not roll frequent kernel updates; on the other hand the easymsx never gave me trouble on recalbox, probably because of that.

I found this Howto about mounting a smartphone via mtp and jmtpfs in the directory tree of a Debian-based Linux system (such as Retropie). https://www.khalidalnajjar.com/connect-android-nougat-to-linux-using-usb/ It looks quite comprehensive and step-by-step to me. I can't say more about it, however, since I don't have a smartphone. :)

@papinist DL21 only works for DL, but on http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/tech/ you can find enhanced versions of DL2 and SA as well. Look under "ROM Updates". I think a separate thread would be better for your Daphne issues.

This is just my two cents, but I've not had good luck with 3.0 cables. Sometimes the controller wouldn't be recognized. I ended up stuffing them in a drawer and getting some 2.0 cables. They were the cheapest 3.0 cables on Amazon, so higher quality cables might work fine. I eventually got some 8bitdo wireless controllers. They can sometimes be a headache, dealing with bluetooth issues. But the tangled up extension cables were a bigger constant headache.

@mitu Thanks! I'll take a look into that tonight. Sounds like just what I'm looking for.

Are you using an USB microSD card reader? Either way, the mounts on RetroPie are managed by usbmount, not by Kodi itself.

Hello mitu, thanks for your reply. I looked a the games.log file. no details of the crash. I also tried the "set cvars" in the ingame control panel etc, still crashed. not sure where to go from here.

@m2306 Yes, it's possible to use different gamepads as P1, depending on the system you play or choose at runtime. You can use Meleu's joystick selection tool to do that.